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Missionary Church and Paiute boy – Historic Print

Missionary Church and Paiute boy, c1991. — historic photograph
Missionary Church and Paiute boy, c1991.. Historic photograph from the Religious collection.

(Originally scanned by the Library of Congress. Each image is professionally and digitally cleaned of artifacts such as color bars and extra borders prior to printing.)

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The church and the boy share this frame on the Pyramid Lake Indian Reservation in western Nevada, home of the Pyramid Lake Paiute Tribe. The image comes from the Pyramid Lake Project and was later published in *Eyes of the Nation*, a 1997 visual history of the United States. Its subject is the place where Christian mission churches and Paiute religious life exist side by side, a tension that runs through reservation history since the nineteenth century. The lake itself has long been central to Paiute identity and spiritual practice, so the picture invites a look at how faith and community are expressed there in the 1990s.

Created / publishedc1991.
Medium2 photographic prints : gelatin silver.
GenreGelatin silver prints 1990-2000.
NotesLC37-RD and LC38-RD. From the Pyramid Lake Project. Published in: Eyes of the nation : a visual history of the United States / Vincent Virga and curators of the Library of Congress ; historical commentary by Alan Brinkley. New York : Knopf, 1997. Unprocessed in PR 13 CN 1995:020.
SubjectsMission churches--Nevada--Pyramid Lake Indian Reservation--1990-2000. Indians of North America--Spiritual life--1990-2000. Paiute Indians--Spiritual life--1990-2000.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan1,465 × 1,177 px · prints to 5 × 4 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-HPA-218701

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